YEAR WITH GILBERT WHITE (PB)

In 1781, Gilbert White was a humble country curate living in Hampshire. He was also halfway to completing his path-breaking The Natural History of Selborne. Notable for its close observation, humour and sympathy, it has stayed in print, treasured by generations of readers, and led White to be dubbed the father of ecology. Tracing a single year of his fascination with the fauna, flora and people around him, Jenny Uglow accompanies Gilbert from frost to summer drought, from the migration of birds to the sex lives of snails and the coming of harvest.